On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 11:53:12AM -0500, wb.kl...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> On a desktop system using a browser like chromium or firefox, we got a lot of
> files we simply don't want to backup. The browsers, and a lot of other
> desktop applications, scatter those files over several dot-named directories
> like .config, .local or .cache. Excluding dot-named files and directories
> from backup is a good idea, especially for .ssh, which contains secrets,
> which are not secret anymore, if backupped.
Except if those ssh keys are used to authenticate to other systems,
are not backed up and then subsequently lost to storage failure, one
might have a somewhat not fun time.
So I recommend splitting your backups into unprotected sets (no damage,
at most mildly irritated if it becomes public) and protected sets
(e.g. ssh keys, financial/medical data, etc), the latter of which
should be encrypted.
Kind regards,
Alex.
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